№1 (32) March 2009Youth: Image of Future Homeland? 'Big Read'

Editor's note

The more they speak about youth policy on television, the more subtle is the topic of the discussion. If there is any discussion at all.
In different calls and reports and measures to be taken we hear only about need to build carreer escalators for elite part of the youth. What is going on in this country, is there an active position of the younger generation to themselves and to their future? In this issue we tried to make things a bit clearer.In full

Events

David KipenWould somebody please pinch me?Director of National Reading Initiatives of the National Endowment for Arts (USA) tells, 'After seeing how well people respond to the chance to share a book with their next-door neighbors, we naturally couldn’t help wondering whether the idea might work...'

Julia NerushSphere of Influence. Interview with Irina Golushko Horizons and practice of youth policy in Surgut

Daria KostinaBukashkinReturn of the legend of Sverdlovsk underground: the young quest for their heroes and find them in the past.

Dmitry MarkovSenior Boarding School GroupThey are not included into a single social programme… while they are free

Issue Interview

Marina BalashkinaPower of Peasant ClanThe years of collectivization ruined the lives of many people. The more important then the stories of their children and grandchildren who do not consider themselves to be peasants. Interview by Marina Balashkina.

The project

Efim RezvanHorse-Rider. African DiarySaint-Petersburg Kunstkamera contains collections and documents concerned with Gumilev’s travel to Abyssinia hardly known to the public. A century after researchers walked the African route of the poet-symbolist. The end of the story about expedition. See the beginning in №4 (31) 2008